From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-04-09 12:10:22 +0000, Ian Goddard said:   
      
   > On 09/04/19 12:27, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
   >> I once read a book about names in which it was said that the Puritans   
   >> often named their children with whole phrases such as "He who is a   
   >> sinner is condemned" or "He who loves the Lord will be blessed" (1) and   
   >> these names would be abbreviated for everyday use.  Those became known   
   >> as "Sinner" or similar had a tendency to grown up to be wrong-doers,   
   >> whereas those with names like "Blessed" would be honest, upright   
   >> citizens   
   >   
   > A mid C17th vicar of Almondbury gave a son the puritan name of "Who God   
   > Will" which continued for a generation.  ISTR the younger got into some   
   > sort of trouble (I think it was affray as recorded in the MRs).  The   
   > odd thing is that a vicar of puritan inclination should have continued   
   > to keep the registers in Latin using Latinised forms of names so the   
   > records were actually QuodDeusVult".   
      
   If I remember rightly, Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart was entered in the   
   register as Theophilus but is usually known as Amadeus.   
      
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